3711 replies to this topic

[Sleehrat00]

Hey Sam, I hate to be THAT guy, but where'd the HOB thread go? I checked the bookmarked link that I had saved, and its not routing to the page?

[SamuriHL]

This is the HoB discussion thread. Look at what part of the forum it's in...IOW, go up a level.

[Sleehrat00]

Yeah, Chrome's bookmarking abilty got confused... I had just relabeled the link the wrong thing. But, as always, I appreciate the help!

[Aldroid33]

Hi Sam, haven't visited your thread for a while. I hope all is well.

Any further news about a JB leak or OTA date for the Bionic? I did read discussion on last page. Tried to search the threads before asking more, but came up empty.

[soocold]

Hi Sam, haven't visited your thread for a while. I hope all is well.

Any news about a JB leak or OTA for the Bionic? Tried to search the thread before asking, but came up empty.

That's intentional

Sent from my DROID BIONIC

[Aldroid33]

That's intentional

Sent from my DROID BIONIC

U R soocold Please see my modified post. So wazz up?

[SamuriHL]

It's coming. Probably end of next month.

[Aldroid33]

It's coming. Probably end of next month.

Like the new Avatar and graphics. At first I thought "who I this guy?"

Thanks to Hashcode's Safestrap I have not had to seek refuge in your nice new House:)
Hope to see you again soon when JB is on the OTA. 4.2? Thanks for the info

[SamuriHL]

NP. We'll see what happens. I will caution people not to jump on it if they're rooted without reading this thread first when it does come out.

[milski65]

You know they will. It's inevitable.

Sent from my XT875 using Tapatalk 2

[SamuriHL]

Then they will be screwed without any recourse. IOW, NMP

[marleyinoc]

I'm pretty sure I'll always find a reason to root, thanks to the awesome talent and limit-pushing developers have and do... But for (almost) every awesome thing we've seen come from the dev community, Google has incorporated in Android.

This means two (edit: 3) things to me. One, it would be silly to close all root possibilities (though with more "dev" phones and more developers nesting close to them this carries less weight). Two, it's a stretch to call people "screwed" if they lose root on Jelly Bean. Three, I'd be a fool if I didn't defer to your judgment on this, though.

[SamuriHL]

I said those who care about root...like those who use custom roms, or half the stuff I do on my phone...would be screwed if they lose root. Do you understand how long it took Dan to root the accidentally released RAZR JB release? Do you honestly think that exploit will work for us? If you have no root exploit, the first time you have to FXZ on JB, root goes bye bye. I know, everyone thinks "meh, we'll just wait around for the new root exploit." That is by no means guaranteed. So if you don't care about root, fine, no problem. If you do, and you don't protect it during the upgrade and/or have to FXZ for any reason, well, that's not going to be pleasant as you won't get it back.

[kickbutkuss]

Amen!

[hisself]

I said those who care about root...like those who use custom roms, or half the stuff I do on my phone...would be screwed if they lose root. . . .

So, just for grins, what custom ROMs do you use on your Bionic? And, how do you install them, ie. with Safestrap??

Inquiring minds want to know

[SamuriHL]

I don't use custom roms.

Sent from my Xoom using Tapatalk HD

[hisself]

Oops, my mistake. I read your response several times, and each time I saw "those of us who use custom ROMs" I guess that shows that I read what I expect to see, not what I see

[Aldroid33]

So, just for grins, what custom ROMs do you use on your Bionic? And, how do you install them, ie. with Safestrap??

Inquiring minds want to know

While SamuriHL likes Stock 246, there is a thread about Bionic Rom preferences in Droid Bionic-> Roms.

Personally, while I like Stock 246, my favorite is Icarus HD 1.7.2 which is a Blur ICS Rom, AWSOME!!! Also play around with 4.2.1 Roms from Hashcode-CM10.1 and HC/David Hacker-Killrom. Both have been updated last week

Remember, use Safestrap 3.11 only and back up 246 on the stock Slot. Flash 4.2 Roms in Slot 1 and ICS and other in slots 2 and 3!!! Have fun!

[SamuriHL]

Alright, so, as a lot of you know, the Bionic JB build is finished. We're just awaiting our turn in the push it out the door queue. RAZR and D4 are up first and will be pushed out next Friday assuming everything goes according to plan. The Bionic is up after that. If for some miraculous reason the build goes out early while I'm on vacation next week, a few things will need to happen.

o) Someone needs to capture the update zip. Only rooted users need apply and it's in your /cache folder.
o) Someone needs to extract the cdt.bin and VERIFY that the security has been updated over ICS. I'm 99.9% sure it will be, but, I prefer due diligence.
o) Those who want root will need to protect it. I'll detail that in a minute.
o) Someone, and we have volunteers for this so don't rush to be this person, will need to test the JB root exploit against the Bionic JB build. I'm not confident that it'll work.

IF the JB root exploit works, then the HoB will be relevant for JB as it'll provide cover until the FXZ is released. That's a big IF. If it does not, then don't use the HoB with the update if you intend to keep root. Any time you flash the system partition, root is blown away. The method the HoB uses to handle updates will flash the system partition and you'll lose root.

I will be around periodically so if a new update does come out while I'm gone, watch this thread as it'll get updated with information. You'll want to go into the update with full knowledge of whether you can downgrade to ICS (unlikely), whether you can keep root through the update (very likely), and whether the JB root exploit will work (I doubt it).

Keeping root through an update:

o) Ensure your SU binary is up to date
o) Install OTA Rootkeeper
o) Use the protect root feature
o) Temp unroot
o) Install the update
o) Restore root

You may do the same with SuperSU Pro, as well. I intend to use both. I'm paranoid like that.

[thirdeye73]

Sam I know you've covered this before but is buried in the moot thread I believe. What's the procedure for capturing update.zip? I will volunteer for that much at least

Sent from my iced 246 bionic